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Astro Raker Turns Programming Into an Asteroid Heist
A team programming game in which players write HTTP-speaking code to operate mining rovers on the fictional asteroid AR-7.
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Astro Raker frames a coding exercise as a live rover mission: programs inspect their surroundings, choose commands, and send them through a plain HTTP interface. The page includes a curl example using bearer authentication, JSON, and an idempotency key rather than stopping at abstract gameplay language. Its operating formats range from solo runs and one-keyboard mob programming to team-versus-team sessions, with recommended events of 5–10 teams and missions lasting 30, 60, or 120 minutes.
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